PICTURE THIS: Food Display Ikebukura, Tokyo

Hello Kitty!

PICTURE THIS: Foie Gras Bon Bon, Commonwealth, San Francisco

Yes, Foie Gras and Dark Chocolate. AMAZING!
Off the Chef's tasting menu at COMMONWEALTH, San Francisco

PICTURE THIS: Now that's a WINE TASTING!

From "Three Decades of Reserve Cabernets" at the Kapalua Food and Wine Festival.
BTW, what's that white paper cup for anyway?

PICTURE THIS: Smart Words

And if you really love them,  Healthy Tasty Food!
(Penzy's Sticker)

PICTURE THIS: West Maui Mountains and Lahaina

A Beautiful Day in West Maui

PICTURE THIS: Mountain view from morning bike ride

How beautiful is that?!

PICTURE THIS: Tommy Bahama Sliders

Beef, touch of bacon and cheese, guacamole, perfect buns.
From Tommy Bahamas, Wailea, Maui-the best happy hour nibbles and pours.
Tommy Bahama Wailea

PICTURE THIS: Menu from Eleven Madison Park, NYC

Four course meal, pick one ingredient from each row and be wowed
by what the kitchen prepares for you!  A new
experience in ordering food-I liked it!

PICTURE THIS: Fruit Salad

Snack, anyone?



PICTURE THIS: Beautiful Flowers of Hawaii

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.  ~John Ruskin

PICTURE THIS: New Additions to the "Family"

Sale at Cooks Illustrated and going out of business sale at local bookstore=SCORE!

PICTURE THIS: Favorite snack!

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are. ~Adelle Davis

Almond butter and apple, mmm.  Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms.

PICTURE THIS: Mimosa Fixins-Cheers to Wills and Kate

"I only drink champagne when I'm happy, and when I'm sad.
Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone.
When I have company, I consider it obligatory.
I trifle with it if I am not hungry and drink it when I am.
Otherwise I never touch it - unless I'm thirsty." Lilly Bollinger

PICTURE THIS: Happy Easter!

PICTURE THIS: Local Hawaiian Tomatoes (from the Big Island of Hawaii)

"A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins." - Laurie Colwin

PICTURE THIS: Spring Bouquet of Freshness

Anuhea Farm Asparagus, Makawao, Maui





PICTURE THIS: Memories from a trip to Japan, 2009

Tsukiji Fish Market, Tokyo

PICTURE THIS: Hibiscus

Sending you, Dear Readers, some tropical color to brighten your day!

Picture This: My Clean Eating Magazine Feature and Tsunami Update

My Mom called me recently and exclaimed "You didn't tell me you were going to be in a magazine!".  Well, I thought I'd told her it was a possibility (I never count my chickens until they're hatched).  Anyway, I am fortunate that my recipe for Easy Make Ahead Breakfast Quiche was accepted for publication in Clean Eating Magazine, March 2011, page 24.

One of the pitfalls of living on Maui is that our magazines come by boat and so usually they arrive about 3 or more weeks later than when you get yours.  The folks at Clean Eating did me a favor and sent me a copy of March's magazine by Fedex so I can share this with you now!

So, indulge me while I do my little woo-hoo dance!

**We are anxiously awaiting to see how big or not the tsunami will be here on Maui.  It's 3am now and the sirens are sounding hourly.  Low lying areas are evacuated, some roads closed.  We are high enough at our house to be safe, but it is a bit scary just waiting.  Thoughts out to our friends in Japan.

PICTURE THIS: Butternut Squash Pizza

Butternut Squash Pizza from Chef Merriman's New Restaurant: Monkeypod Kitchen



Another dazzling pizza from Maui!  Caramelized onions, roasted butternut squash and pine nuts on a crispy crust.  Oh, so good.